Separate ways

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Fran Hart

We met during our fifteenth year, immediately inseparable, soul mates, imagining life eternally together. But youthful ideals are impractical. After we graduated, ambition, a greater divider than geography, widened a gulf between us. The year I started college, she married. By the time I graduated with my doctorate, she had two children. My first promotion came the year her husband left.

Perhaps because we shared a birthday, we stayed in touch, whether by card (often late), phone call, or an occasional visit.

Until now.

Thin and frail, victim of a disease that claimed what life could not, taking her from me.

These 100 words are prompted by VelvetVerbosity.com: “widened”

About Fran Hart

Disciple of Christ, earning a living as the director of US-based operations for a Taiwanese company, managing an engineering organization while carving out time to write. Wife, Mother, Grandmother.
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10 Responses to Separate ways

  1. Tara R. says:
    October 3, 2011 at 3:56 am

    A touching love story in so few words.

  2. Bobbi says:
    October 3, 2011 at 6:06 am

    Touching and tugged at my heart!

  3. Amy L. says:
    October 3, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    Here today, gone in a flash. But only gone for a while, since we leave too. No physical immortality round these parts.

  4. Velvet Verbosity says:
    October 11, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    Ah, unrequited love. Sad and beautiful.

  5. Robin Hawke says:
    October 13, 2011 at 10:36 am

    I knew there was a “widened” linky link…thank you!

    One can’t dismiss the power of the right time and place…great post. Robin

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